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Publications & Presentations
Monograph Articles & Guidebooks
Blood, D.R., and Lash, G.G., 2018, FT-02: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Upper Devonian Black Shales of Western New York State with Considerations for Unconventional Reservoir Development: 47th Annual AAPG-SPE Joint Eastern Section Meeting, pre-meeting field trip, October 7th, 2018.
Lash, G.G., and Blood, D.R., 2013, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the “Other” Shales, Upper Devonian, Western New York State: American Association of Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, pre-meeting field trip, May 18th, 2013, 132 p.
Blood, D.R., 2011, Sequence Stratigraphy Key to Marcellus Lateral Placement, American Oil and Gas Reporter Magazine, August 2011, p 52-60.

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Abstracts
Blood, D.R., and Lash, G.G., 2018, Carbonate concretions in the Middle and Upper Devonian shales of the Appalachian Basin: Insights into origin, formation, and their effects on drilling efficiency: accepted for presentation at the 47th Annual AAPG-SPE Joint Eastern Section Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 7-10, 2018.
Blood, D.R., 2018, Controls on reservoir development in the Ordovician Point Pleasant Limestone and the Devonian Marcellus Shale: Comparing and contrasting two Appalachian Basin unconventional reservoirs: presented at the Geochemical Society’s Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, August 12-17, 2018.
Blood, D.R., 2018, Controls on Reservoir Development in the Ordovician Point Pleasant Limestone and Devonian Marcellus Shale: Comparing and Contrasting Two Appalachian Basin Unconventional Reservoirs: accepted for presentation at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2018.
Blood, D.R., 2018, Creating Giants: The depositional and diagenetic pathways to the Ordovician Point Pleasant Limestone and Devonian Marcellus Shale Unconventional Reservoirs: accepted for presentation at the 53rd Northeastern Annual Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Burlington, Vermont, March 18-20, 2018.
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Invited Lectures
Controls on Reservoir Development in the Ordovician Point Pleasant Limestone and Devonian Marcellus Shale: Comparing and Contrasting Two Appalachian Basin Unconventional Reservoirs: Ohio Geological Society Meeting (April 2018)
Deposition, Diagenesis and Hydrocarbon Generation in the Ordovician Point Pleasant Limestone and the Devonian Marcellus Shale: Comparing and Contrasting Two Appalachian Basin Unconventional Reservoirs: Illinois Geological Society Meeting (December 2017)
Redox conditions during deposition and early diagenesis of the Upper Ordovician Point Pleasant Limestone of southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia: Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists September Meeting (September 2016)
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